A conservative rival for Wikipedia?
Earlier this week I stumbled across something called Conservapedia, which, at first glance resembles Wikipedia. It is laid out exactly the same way and uses similar fonts and colours. Furthermore, just like Wikipedia, anyone can add and edit entries after registering with the site.
But that’s about as far as the similarity goes. On its home page, Conservapedia claims to be “a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American”. Conservapedia contains entries that reflect creationist thinking on evolution and lend support to critics of global warming.
Shortly after I found the site it was also discovered by a group of anti-Intelligent Design bloggers. They took it upon themselves to poke fun at the entries and correct much of the science. “Most of the science on the site is either shallow and useless or downright wrong,” says Paul Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota in Morris who runs […]
Original post by http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/conservative-rival-for-wikipedia.html